Rangers re-sign Marek Hrivik

New York, May 30, 2012 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has agreed to terms with free agent forward Marek Hrivik.

Hrivik, 20, led Connecticut (AHL) with five goals and tied for the team lead with nine points in nine playoff games. He ranked second among AHL rookies in playoff goals, tied for third in points and first in power play goals (two). He also tied for sixth in the league overall in playoff goals and power play goals. Hrivik posted a six-game point streak from April 21 at Bridgeport to May 7 vs. Norfolk, registering five goals and three assists over the span. The six-game streak tied as the fourth-longest in the AHL during the playoffs, and included a three-game goal streak which tied as the longest in the postseason. Hrivik completed the first round with a team-high, four goals, in Connecticut’s three-game sweep against Bridgeport.

Hrivik signed an Amateur Tryout Agreement with Connecticut on March 30, and made his professional debut on March 31 vs. Adirondack. He notched one goal in eight games with the Whale during the regular season. Hrivic registered his first professional point with a goal on April 11 at Portland.

Prior to joining Connecticut, Hrivik skated in 54 games with the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), registering 29 goals and 41 assists for 70 points, along with eight penalty minutes and a plus-13 rating. He tied his QMJHL career-highs in assists and power play goals (11). Hrivic ranked third on the team in goals, assists, points, and power play goals, and tied for second on Moncton in plus-minus rating. He also registered one goal and two assists in four playoff games with the Wildcats.

The 6-1, 195-pounder skated in 179 career QMJHL games with Moncton, registering 93 goals and 111 assists for 204 points, along with 40 penalty minutes and a plus-29 rating. In 2010-11, Hrivik established career-highs in goals (38), assists (41), points (79), penalty minutes (18), and power play goals (11) while skating in 59 games. He led Moncton and tied for seventh in the league in goals, and ranked second on the team and tied for 15th in the QMJHL in points. Hrivik made his North American debut during the 2009-10 season, recording 26 goals and 29 assists for 55 points in 66 games after being selected by Moncton in the first round (34th overall) of the 2009 CHL Import Draft. Hrivik has also registered six goals and 20 assists for 26 points in 29 career QMJHL playoff games. He skated in the 2010 Memorial Cup with Moncton, tallying one assist in three tournament contests.

The Zilina, Slovakia native has also skated in several international tournaments, including the 2009 and 2011 IIHF U-20 World Junior Championship. In 2011, Hrivik ranked second on Slovakia with two goals in six tournament contests.

Ok guys, I left that post and the responses hanging a few posts due to being busy at work and such :/

Re the cap- if it goes up it makes everything that much easier. I am sure you guys watched what I watched where 1-3 more goals in these playoffs here and there and we are talking about them playing tonight and not golfing early.

A higher cap I don’t see how anyone could be opposed to adding a Parise style player. Especially considering how well he can fit into Johnny T’s system. And how a little bit of scoring could have vastly changed our fortunes this spring

the league did not say, although it was implied as per old boy’s network agreement, that these “standards” will not be forced upon the new jersey devils so that that team will be able to continue to hold, hook and interfer on a regular basis.

“Well I would like to have a 60-goal scorer, I’d like to have a defenseman who can play 25 minutes and get 25 goals; I would like to have a goaltender that could be under one goal per game,” Sather said. “I mean those are wish-lists that every team in this league would like to have. Realistically, there are some people that are gonna be available. But they’re not available until July 1. So you really can’t talk about any of those guys.”

Papa, I know you’re probably just kidding. But, I’m convinced that we have players in our prospect pool and CT that are better. The Devils just have a more balanced attack than the Rangers. The Rangers essentially sacrifice a scoring line for a defensive “shutdown” line. The Rangers have 3 lines that _may_ score (only 2 really do) and the Devils have 4 lines that can score. I think it comes down to team style; not individual players. Just my humble opinion….

Okay. If you don’t like the Devils 4th line, How bout …..Tom Poti is a UFA in 2013. Maybe we should save some cap room??? (Although, I’m not even sure if he played this year – but I’m sure he’d come back. He loved it here!) ;-(

NYR_FAN, hey buddy…i meant to write back to you, but was busy…i did not invent ‘the Bernank’. There was a video around 2008-09 I think…sometime after the Lehman cascade event…where this guy did a series of paranormal videos for finance about such things as treasury markets and who controlled the Fed. Was pretty funny, and I bet you may have seen some of them already. That gentleman used the name ‘the Bernank’ either by design or by default..pure genius anyhows.

eric, not me. I’m not even going to the home games, and didn’t make any effort to even catch the first period on TV … so also no review.

Zip’s not traveling, either, I think. I’m sure Andrew Gross, Pat Leonard and probably Brooks and one of the Times guys will travel, though they’ll be doing sidebars because their papers actually, you know, cover the Devils with a regular beat guy.

Carpy, we all talk about signing Parise or someone for big bucks and a lotta years. Has any research been done on any of these big money/years contracts? What players are actually playing better in year 2,3,4 of them?

I think of all these guys that are worse than when they signed. Starting with DiPietro, Ovechkin, Patrick Keane. I guess you could say Malkin is better. Who else?

“I would like to have a 60-goal scorer, I’d like to have a defenceman that could play 25 minutes and get 25 goals, I’d like to have a goaltender that could be under one goal-against per game,” Sather said. “Those are wish lists that every team in this league would like to have. Realistically, there are some people that are going to be available, but they’re not available until July 1.”

I know I need to get over it, but for all the talk of the Rangers getting outplayed by Jersey, in games 5 and 6 they basically entered the third period tied and dominated play for that period. Really, for the first time all year it just didn’t bounce their way. Could easily. – easily- have been Rangers in six. Still can’t get over it.

The kings held the puck for one second longer tonight than the rangers.
made the devils commit and then passed.
devils forecheck non-existent for most of the night.
will the refs ever call an interference penalty against the devils?

Totally on board with you (as we already discussed last week). Didn’t watch a second of this b.s. tonight and won’t be watching any of the remaining games. That being said, it’s good that the Devils lost.

I wish I could get the Canadian TV feeds here – I’ve heard of some folks getting Canadian satellite dishes that are made for the Canadian TV market and installing them down here, but the legality of it all is questionable, at best…